On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Peter Routtier-Wone wrote:
> > If the desire is to provide an easy setup for testing, I would suggest
> that you
> > focus on InstantDB or HSQL since these already ship bundled with jBoss.
> Are
> > these databases complete enough to support ECPerf? If not, then Cloudscape
> is a
> > decent choice because of the free developer license.
>
> Despite intrinsic value from a testing point of view, benchmarks are
> primarily a marketing tool.
>
> The commercial world, for better or for worse, uses Oracle frequently. A
> great number of eCommerce projects are intended to present data from what
> are, to a J2EE developer, legacy systems. Great numbers of these are based
> around Oracle. Cloudscape and InstantDB are marginal at best from this
> perspective. Benchmarks using them are almost worthless in touting JBoss to
> the business world.
At this point we're just talking about getting ECPerf running. I'd imagine
that any results that the JBoss Group would publish would be against
Oracle or DB2, or one of the other biggies. (Note use of the word
"imagine" - I am not affiliated in any way with the JBoss Group)
--
Dan Christopherson (danch)
nVisia Technical Architect (www.nvisia.com)
Opinions expressed are mine and do not neccessarily reflect any
position or opinion of nVISIA.
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